Arnova Tablet 9 G2 in Dubai – upgrade to Google Play / Market
I recently purchased Arnova Tablet 9 G2 from SharafDG, Dubai, UAE - which was a good bargain as I was getting along an Arnova Child Pad with it FREE, but i soon found it to be useless, when i found it had no Google Play / Market in both of these Tablets.
I was under the impression that anything that has Android OS, must have an Google Market / Play, but i was wrong, it had some useless APPSLIB, which was really crappy in the sense of the applications that I needed to download was not available.
The Arnova Tablet 9 G2 is quite a decent one, since it has a large screen, with 1GHZ processor, and 8 GB space, but the sound is really terrible, you would need to put an additional speaker, not worth to watch a movie on.
Anyways I had purchased this more for professional work rather than entertainment, and I needed those APPS from Google Market / Play.
After lot of research, I found there was a way to Flash your Arnova Tablet 9 G2 and install a custom firmware and get the Google Market / Play. But believe me it was a risky process, since it could brick your device and would become a paper weight. But after carefully going through the below link given, step by step, I had successfully installed the custom firmware which included the Google Market / Play and all the related applications with it such as Gmail, GTalk, Maps, etc... It was a big relief for me as I know had access to the entire Market and had my favorite applications installed on to my tablet.
So for people who got this tablet and wondering how you could install the Google Play, please follow the below link:
http://www.arctablet.com/blog/featured/flashing-arnova-g2-rockchip-2918-rockchip-flashing-tool/
If for some reason you are not confident of doing so, send me an email / post a comment on this blog, and would be happy to help you out.
Email Marketing – the right way to do it
I'm putting few email marketing tips for those who heavily depend on Email Marketing as their main marketing tool to show case their product and services. Now this is entirely written according to the experience I had over all this years. I've been fortunate to run lot of email marketing campaigns for international clients such as Land Rover, Jumeirah International, adidas, Microsoft. Over the years I've been able to give clients an insight how well did their email campaign and generate various reports on Email Open, Clicks, Unsubscribed, Bounces, etc...
Now I may understand what i present here, people might have different opinions and can freely comment & put in their experience as well:
Your email contacts are very important to you and therefore the Emails you sent to them should meet the following criteria:
1. Your email should always have a Good subject line, mentioning clearly what the Body content of the email will be all about, avoid using words 10% discount, Free, You've won, etc as these might directly go to Spam/Junk
2. Your email should always have a properly formatted HTML that is view able and faster to download on any email client, platform, gadgets.
3. You should always put the statement "If you are not able to view this email, please click here" and click here should link to the HTML file which you've hosted it somewhere (for e.g. http://www.example.com/newsletter01.html)
4. Avoid using complete images on the email, as some people just do not have enough email space or sometimes it is blocked by Email Settings. Even if you do use, always include TITLE and ALT tags on the Images, so even if they cannot see the images, they can read the underlying text.
5. Put in more of meaningful text and give proper linking to sections which need to go to a specific location. Make sure your text is not very long, which could bore the audience, specially those who are using mobile phones to read your emails. Make it short & concise.
6. When you design an email, make sure your email width maximum size is 700 pixels and not more than that, height can be any proportional. Also ensure your overall email size is not more than 200KB.
7. Always ensure you have the unsubscribe to your email listing in order to for the user to unsubscribe from your list.
The above tips are largely for those people who heavily depend on Email as their Marketing tool and have a good set of Emails. Say even if you've an minimum email database of 50 emails, you should follow the basic rules.
Hope this helps!
Do let me know if you have any queries.
Thanks & Regards
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